December 31, 2011 Democracy is shining in the dark by Bridget Welsh@www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT Largely driven by ordinary citizens, often connected through the social media, Southeast Asia is experiencing important and substantive political change. In this year of the Arab Spring, attention has centered on developments in the Middle East. With street protests and elections, amidst [...]
Archive for December 2011
Democracy is shining in the dark
December 31, 2011Press Statement by Tan Sri Robert Phang: Enough is Enough
December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 PRESS STATEMENT BY: TAN SRI DATUK ROBERT PHANG MIOW SIN Justice of Peace Chairman – Social Care Foundation ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! In the past few weeks, the MACC has been very prolific. Many advertorials have been published in the main stream newspapers of the MACC’s achievements in eradicating corruption. The conviction [...]
Welcome Year of the Water Dragon
December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 Welcome Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Happy New Year to All Malaysians and our Friends around the World. May you be blessed with Good Health, Prosperity and Happiness in the Year 2012. 2011 will recede into history and it will be up to our historians to decide its significance for the [...]
Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders
December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders by John Coleman and Bill George As the New Year approaches, people will be making resolutions to eat better, exercise more, get that promotion at work, or spend more time with their families. While these are worthwhile goals, we have a more important challenge for young people: [...]
An Eventful 2011 for Prime Minister
December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 REWIND 2011 An Eventful 2011 for Prime Minister By Ali Imran Mohd Noordin (12-30-11) Though 2011 has been a challenging year for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, both at the domestic and the global front, it was still an eventful year. At the domestic front, Najib continued with the transformation programmes while [...]
Bruno Manser Fonds: Arrest and Criminally Prosecute Sarawak’s Taib Mahmud and Family
December 30, 2011December 30, 2011 http://www.bmf.ch Bruno Manser Fonds to Malaysian Authorities: Arrest and Criminally Prosecute Sarawak’s Taib Mahmud and Family In a letter to Malaysia’s Attorney General (AG), the Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), an international NGO coalition is requesting that Malaysia’s top prosecutors immediately arrest [...]
A World of Gray
December 30, 2011December 30, 2011 A World of Gray by Gareth Evans (12-26-11) Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and dissident turned president, and North Korean despot Kim Jong-il might have lived on different planets, for all their common commitment to human dignity, rights, and democracy. When they died just a day apart this month, the contrast was [...]
Freemalaysiatoday’s Top Newsmaker of the Year 2011 is…
December 30, 2011December 30, 2011 Dato S. Ambiga of BERSIH2.0 BERSIH2.0 hero S. Ambiga was named FMT’s top newsmaker of the year after some 57% of its readers voted for her, drubbing more prominent figures like Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. This comes as no surprise, given the amount of headlines Ambiga, [...]
Han Han: China’s Star Blogger on 2012
December 30, 2011December 30, 2011 Han on a minute China’s Star Blogger on 2012 Han Han, one of the most widely read bloggers in a country that censors its independent voices, is a rebel who does not really seek to overthrow anybody, a troublemaker who does not want to cause too much trouble. He sees, with dismay, [...]
STOP The Business of Corruption
December 30, 2011December 30, 2011 www.freemalaysiatoday.com The Business of Corruption in Malaysia by Jeswan Kaur (12-29-11) One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money and those who want to do everything with money– Indira Gandhi. Corruption has become a way of life for politicians in this country. Under the disguise of defending the rakyat’s [...]
The Brazilian Model: Growth with Inclusion and Sustainability
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 The Brazilian Model: Growth with Inclusion and Sustainability by Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil in The World in 2012, The Economist “Governance structures need to change accordingly, to reflect the world as it is today, in particular the UN Security Council, the IMF and the World Bank. Developing countries need to have [...]
FELDA Controversy: Tengku Razaleigh’s Help Sought
December 29, 2011December 29,2011 FELDA Controversy: Tengku Razaleigh’s Help Sought by Hafiz Yatim@www.malaysiakini.com A non-governmental organisation representing the children of FELDA settlers (ANAK), hopes to rope former Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah into the fight against the listing of Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) next month. ANAK President Mazlan Aliman said he would be meeting Tengku [...]
The Alleged Plagiarist Judge is still around
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 The Alleged Plagiarist Judge is still around by S Pathmawathy@www.malaysiakini.com Veteran lawyer Karpal Singh today renewed his call for Court of Appeal Judge Abdul Malik Ishak’s resignation for keeping mum on the allegation of plagiarism made against the Judge. Demanding that Justice Abdul Malik quit in the public interest, Karpal said the [...]
The UUCA and The Universities
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 www.thestar.com.my The UUCA and The Universities By Shad Saleem Faruqi(12-28-11) Instead of using the sledgehammer of the law, universities could use the law of contract and the techniques of private law to keep politics in campus under reasonable control. THE Prime Minister has instructed that the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) [...]
Clarify the Status of Isa Samad, says ANAK
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 Clarify the Status of Isa Samad, says ANAK by Koh Jun Lin@www.malaysiakini.com ANAK, an NGO representing Felda settlers, has lodged a second complaint to the Suruhanjaya Koperasi Malaysia (SKM), asking it to clarify whether Isa Abdul Samad is indeed the chairperson of Koperasi Permodalan Felda Bhd (KPF). This is due to conflicting [...]
Debt Is (Mostly) Money We Owe to Ourselves
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 www.nytimes.com Debt Is (Mostly) Money We Owe to Ourselves by Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal (12-28-11) I want to expand a bit on something Dean Baker said yesterday: As a country we cannot impose huge debt burdens on our children. It is impossible, at least if we are referring to [...]
PERKASA and Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution
December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 PERKASA and Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution Maclean Patrick, Malaysia Chronicle | 28 December 2011 PERKASA, as an NGO that is bent on protecting the rights of Malays, will always contort any manner of legislation to suit their arguments – whether right or wrong, fair or unfair. Obviously, this does not [...]
